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Kayla Phillips is a Principal at Hivemind Capital and was previously a partner at Truffle Ventures and a venture partner at Republic. She graduated from Virginia Tech.
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Boris Revsin
Boris Revsin is a Managing Partner at Tribe Capital, leading primary and secondary investments in blockchain, fintech, and crypto. He also manages the Tribe Crypto Labs venture studio and incubator. He was the Co-Founder and Head of Republic Capital at Republic from 2019 to 2022. Prior to Republic Capital, he was a Partner at Game Theory Group.
Catrina Wang
Catrina Wang is an investment partner at Portal Ventures and head of Penn Blockchain's alumni network and conferences. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Zhen Cao
Zhen Cao is a partner of Republic Crypto Fund and was previously the venture partner of JLAB, the crypto fund of JD Capital.
Nikhil Gopalani
Nikhil Gopalani is President and COO of RTFKT and was previously Head of Investment and BD at Republic.
Daniel Larimer
Dan Larimer, also known as BM, is a genius programmer and the only creator in the world who has produced three consecutive blockchain products in the top 50 by market capitalization. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. His dream has always been to find a free market solution that can guarantee people's lives, freedom, and property security, and make the world a better place. He realized that everything had to start with free currency. In 2013, many Bitcoin exchanges were shut down by the US government, and bank accounts were also seized. At this time, BM began developing the world's first decentralized exchange, Bitshares, and invented bitUSD, a digital currency pegged to the US dollar. In the following two years, Dan systematically solved many of the problems that blockchain technology encountered in application. For example, for the trading speed requirement of 100,000 transactions per second for exchanges, Dan developed the Graphene technology solution. In early 2016, Dan developed the Steem blockchain based on his new understanding and developed the Steemit social media application on this public chain. The DPoS consensus mechanism he proposed is based on the concept of shareholder voting to elect validators, which is used to prevent three to five large mining pools from attacking the network and achieve maximum decentralization. Concerns about the risks of DPoS are actually ignoring greater risks. The lack of unity between token holders and decision-makers is a greater risk for the network. In 2017, at the New York Consensus Conference, BM introduced the ambitious EOS project to the world, with the goal of becoming the operating system of the blockchain industry and being seen as a strong competitor to Ethereum. With parallel computing, millions of TPS, and no transaction fees, EOS contains several important features that, if successful, will make blockchain technology a truly practical technology.
Chris Piatt
Chris Piatt is co-founder of Eden Network and co-founder and Head of Technology at Blocklytics. He graduated from Virginia Tech.
Andrew Berkowitz
Andrew Berkowitz is the Founder and CEO of ValuesCo, a Cofounder of AfrofutureDAO, and a Fellow at the Milken Institute. His prior experience includes working as the Managing Partner of The Global Startup Movement, Chief Operating Officer of Tradeversity, and Chief Executive Officer of Socialstack. He studied Business Information Technology and Management Consulting and Analysis at Virginia Tech - Pamplin College of Business.
Elena Nadolinski
Elena Nadolinski is the founder and CEO of Iron Fish and graduated from Virginia Tech. She worked at Microsoft to develop the Windows 10 virtual assistant Cortana before moving to Silicon Valley startup Tilt in July 2016.
Paul Menchov
Paul Menchov is co-founder and former CTO of CoinList, co-founder of Republic, and previously an AngelList engineer. He graduated from Cornell University.
Kinsa Durst
Kinsa Durst is the Chief Marketing officer at Sonic, previously the Director of Marketing at Republic Crypto, and has served as COO on many of the top Web3 projects. A multi-linguist with an engineering background, he provides customised marketing, cross-cultural BD and PR strategies.